Born and raised in Morocco, Yasmine Benabdallah is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory, performance, embodiment, diaspora, archives, rituals, and time travel.
Yasmine’s films and installations have been shown in Morocco, France, Egypt, Palestine, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Tunisia, the US, the UK, and the UAE, where “How to reverse a spell: the promise of an archive” won the Sharjah Art Foundation Best Experimental Short award. She has also participated in artist residencies in Morocco, France, Palestine, Portugal, and Tunisia, where her project “Chebba” was awarded the 2019 Cinephilia Best Screenplay Award.
Her writing has been published in MAI: peer-reviewed journal on Feminism & Visual Culture, Middle East Eye, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2020 Catalogue, divine fanzine, Klima Magazine, and HuffPost Maghreb. Yasmine studied film and mathematics at Columbia University in New York before moving to Paris to attend the Experimental Programme in Political Arts at Sciences Po (SPEAP). She is currently pursuing a critical praxis PhD in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, researching decolonial image-making methods.
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